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Dec 13, 2021 · Beginning in the late nineteenth century, meatpacking moved away from the centralized model of terminal stockyards and processors in a single location (like Chicago) to a model of...
Hormel's history began when the company's founder, George A. Hormel, borrowed $500 in 1887 to form a retail meat market and pork packing business with his partner, Albrect Friedrich.
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The company originally focused on the packaging and selling of ham, sausage and other pork, chicken, beef and lamb products to consumers, adding Spam in 1937. By the 1980s, Hormel began offering a wider range of packaged and refrigerated foods.
- 1891; 132 years ago (as George A. Hormel & Company)
- George A. Hormel
- 20,000 (2019)
- Austin, Minnesota, U.S.
On August 17, 1985, about 1,500 Hormel Foods Corporation workers went on strike at the meat-processing plant at the company’s headquarters in Austin, Minnesota.
Apr 27, 1992 · The film, which won the Academy Award last year for Best Documentary, deals, specifically, with a strike by meatpackers at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minn., and, in general, with the state of...
Aug 9, 2010 · The Hormel meatpacking strike that tore apart Austin in the '80s, eventually transformed the demographics of the southeastern Minnesota town.
Feb 10, 2022 · In 1985, workers at the Hormel Foods plant in Austin, Minnesota, went on strike, demanding better working conditions and stable wages. Generations of meatpackers had worked at the plant, some...
